Fram Jam Floe Flows Lying between Greenland and Spitsbergen, Fram Strait is the major export path through which ice is lost from the main Arctic sea ice pack. Ice floes flowing through Fram Strait…

Tokyo: A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of…

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. The authors suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss…

Ross Ice Shelf - Some Observations The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of roughly 182,000 square miles - 472,000 square kilometers.  The shelf  was named…

The Arctic Ice is preparing itself for a large reduction in sea ice area this summer. The summer of 2007 surprised climatologists when a summer low in ice area was set at about 3 million sqkm. To put…

Arctic Ice November 2010 Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikelyRecord temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and…

A Census of Marine Life expedition discovered a new character for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series - "Mr. Blobby," the fathead sculpin fish, lives in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at…

Arctic Ice October 2010 ... the land being very high and full of mightie mountaines all covered with snowe, no viewe of wood, grasse or earth to be seene, and the shore two leages of into the sea so…

A group of researchers say receding glaciers due to global warming at the end of the last ice age, 20,000-100,000 years ago, resulted in the rampant biodiversity left behind in their wake. Certainly…

We are a water planet but 10% of Earth is covered in ice - ice that is melting in ways that have to be a concern.    To get a handy view of what is happening in the big areas, Greenland,…